Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 2 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 3 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 6 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 7 | But er not not for a long time . |
| 8 | Ex-Fini Triber , Ministry Man and Revolting Cock Chris Connelly team up with the Tribe once more in a long and slow shuffling expedition that 's not necessarily a club-oriented track but is constructed from the fundamental elements of the club scene at least . |
| 9 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 10 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 11 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 12 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 13 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 14 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 15 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 16 | Remember to make the shape of your mount echo that of the letter you are designing — for example , if you want to create a capital I , it will fit far better in a long , thin , rectangular mount , say 22.5 × 15cm ( 9 × 6in ) , with an aperture 5cm ( 2in ) smaller all round , than a circular frame or mount . |
| 17 | Charlotte turned , before getting into the car , and looked back once in a long , sweeping survey of the twilit bowl of turf and stone . |
| 18 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 19 | In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time . |
| 20 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 21 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
| 22 | Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time . |
| 23 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 24 | He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county . |
| 25 | But alas , it was destroyed when I was there recently by a long line of caravans along the beach . |
| 26 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
| 27 | And I think that was the situation for a lot of people , that erm if they did n't take the the flat that was offered to them , then they would be virtually erm either still on a long waiting list or homeless . |
| 28 | Eachuinn Odhar stood absolutely still for a long , long breath . |
| 29 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 30 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |